THE NEW YORKER A :,, .((y 1) } fil y /1/ /,"',.,;.. ;,..;., '-' .. ," jo".:.:: ", .. '::' _ .V ". , , . '. .' , ,".:' ,v', , r , -4" ' "".., 5 ". ....: . ...:......:- -. . , . ... . ...:;: ." :-} . . r-t g: :: ';"'. J 1j:i "How perfectly uncanny! My Greek is coming back to me." . . OF ALL THINGS P REMIER FLANDIN has aNew Deal program resembling Roosevelt's. Maybe France would be in the market for a good used Brain Trust. . A majority of Congressmen favor immediate payment of the bonus, but no increase in taxation. We simply bor- row the money from our grand-chil- dren. . The Mayor and the aldermen have finally agreed on a two-per-cent sales tax to raise relief money. They tried their best to find a worse plan, but there did not seem to be any. . Now that Samuel Insull has been ac- quitted and bygones are bygones, we hope he will find it in his heart to forgive Greece for being so slow about kicking him out. . At last the New York authorities have started putting up signs showing motorists how to get out of town. We all feel that visitors should be allowed to go home if they really insist. . Our Police Commissioner is sore at well-dressed crooks, and orders the cops to muss them up without mercy. Now the scoundrels will probably run around disguised as tattered taxpayers. . Byrd's discovery adds a cool two hundred thousand square miles to Am- erican territory. The best of it is that nobody wiU have to be paid for not rais- ing things there. . Laborites in Parliament complain about the Duke of Kent's salary of $125,000 a year. They claim that this is carrying the unemployment dole to ridiculous extremes. . Joseph Hergesheimer has the worthy aIn bition to stop writing fiction and be- . 33 ""I 1., J " J ', J' UN\ ct, r-v( i, Y), come a columnist. Why not? In this land of boundless opportunity, a novel- ist can become anything except Gov- ernor of California. . The power interests .will contest the constitutionality of the TV A. They have engaged the services of the Consti- tution's discoverer, guardian, and room- mate, James M. Beck. . The jingles on Christmas cards, we regret to report, are no better under the New Deal than they were when the Tories were running things. -HO"\\TARD BRUBAKER . PULLMAN From each compartment, with its neat white number, Arise the small occasional sounds of slumber . . . The drowsy stir, the little sighs up-wreathing Of human animals relaxed, soft-breathing. Here, without question, is a most demure Provision by whose grace they rest secure, In such proximity so chastely laid, Sleeping (ingenuous custom) man and Inaid Inviolate, protected by a certain Conventionality of drawn green curtain. -SARA HENDERSON HAY